Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-03-18

The Queen or spain has signed n decree
making twenty per cent reduction in
| in export duties on sugar and tobacco
! shipped from Cuba.
The Amer of Afghanistan is making a
vigorous effort 10 raise new army.
| Young boys are being drilled and all those
! of Is are being enrolled. The ameer has
issued a circular telling his subjects to
prepare for n holy war. 1t is believed that
he contemplates war against Russia.
The circulation of standard silver dol
lars is now So, pa, $40 out OF a total coin
age OF 256,47l, 647. The silver certificates
i'm circulation amount 10 sl23, POO, 391, de
| Quoting which leaves So, 9t6, 745 net stan
dard dollars in tho treasury. The gold
coin and bullion in the treasury less SOD
0l3O05 gold certificates in circulation,
amounts 60 sl75, 249,2;7.
Lucy parsons the lecturing anarchist
was refus ID permission TO speak in Coum
bus, Ohio, and SO abusive did she become
that the mayor ordere her locked up.
! 1t is rumored that the fiftieth congress,
VIII be convened early IN the fall, probably
in October, and that it will run along into
the regular session.
1t is rumored that the great Baltimore
& Ohio system has been sold 20 a syndicate
OF New Yorl, capitalists.
The national league OF musicians Of the
United States has passed resolutions ask
ing congress TO prohibit bands in the gov
eminent employ from competing with local
musicians and protesting against the i'm
portation Of foreign bands on contract
Il,
woman suffrage movement.
Trade dollars are being melted over at
the rate of 100000 day.
The visible supply of wheat and corn is,
respectively, -, Isl, 463 and 5,74, 300 bush
els Since last report wheat fell off l,s4j,
762 bushels, while the reduction in corn is
go 7l5 bushels.
Cattle kept during the last twelve
month, in Cook county. ILL.,, are absolute
" prohib ted from entering Iowa
Cnder the law, Henry Dodson, va
grant was sold at Augusta, Ky, 10 the
highest bidder for seventy five days. The
TAILOR bought him for 81, and turned him
loose.
Daniel y. Stuart. private detective OF
Toronto has been arrested on a charge OF
sending young girls To American cities for
immoral purposes.
Gladstone has informed his party that
he viii lead the opposition to the coercion
bill in parliament
The Duke OF Westminster and the Duke
Of Argyle refuse TO have anything to do
with the proposed American exhibition,
and characterize it as a private specula-
ton.
Prof. John f Russell professor of Biblical
Theology in Yale is charged with heresy,
in that he denies the divinity Of Christ
Dan Jewell, who was to have been hung
in st Louis on the 10th inst. has been
granted a re spit for 30 DAYS.
Commissioner OF Pensions Black says
the work OF his department. Is greatly re
tarded because he is short OF clerks.
Senator Sherman who is mating tour
Of the south denies emphatically that his
southern jaunt has any political signih-
canoe.
1hree-quarters of one cent a mile is the
railroad rate decided upon for parties of p
attending the national drill.
a new trunk line from Boston TO Duluth
is being talked OF.
a prize fight of ~ round, was fought in
private parlor in Wilmington, Del. the
other night
Vigorous measures for the extirpation
OF the cattle plague are TO he at once in
augurated.
G. II. J. Taylor, a colored man of Kan
sas City, has been appointed minister to
Liberia
Henry Muse, agent Of the Gulf Colo
RADIO q Santa Fe railroad company at
Coleman, was "held up 10y masked men
the other night, aud the Office robbed of
about $1,000.
Lieut. Seward Mott Of the Tenth Caval-
ry stationed at San Carlos reservation.
Arizona. was murdered 10y an Indian with
whom he had had some difficulty in re
gard TO division of land.
Many towns along the banks OF the low
er Mississippi, are under water, and much
damage has been done.
Pre- sident Depew says summer excur
sion rates are not prohibited by the inter
state commerce law.
Henry Ward Beecher's will has been filed
for probate. The will is clear and concise
in its provisions. and bequeathes the pro-
ceeds Of his life Insurance.. when invested,
to his wife during her life, and the net
re ,idue and remainder Of the estate both
real and personal. TO his children.
1t is said on good authority that the
Rev Matthew {. Julien, pastor of the
Trinitarian church in New Bedford, Mass.
will receive call from Plymouth church
Brooklyn, 10 fill the vacancy caused by
the death OF the Rev Henry Ward Reecher
Mrs. May +. Pelton. sister of the late
Samuel j. Tilden, died in New York on the
18th inst. Mrs. Pelton was one Of the
benefciaries Of her brothers will, but NJ
to the time of her death had not received
ANYTHING from the estate.
Mr. II. j. G.. Pendleton, Of Indiana
representing the Hendricks monument
association, has received from President
/ Cleveland substantial contribution
towards the proposed monument together
with an expression Of hearty sympathy in
the movement.
Korn's hotel. two and IA half story
frame house in Camden, y. j., was de
! stroyed by fire the other night and three
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